My Father chords by Nina Simone

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
FF             DmDm
My father always promised me
G minorGm          C majorC
That we would live in France
FF           DmDm
We'd go boating on the Seine
Gm7Gm7         C majorC
And I would learn to dance

Verse 2:
DmDm      G7G7
We lived in Ohio then
C majorC           C minorCm
He worked in the mines
          F7F7
On his dreams like boats we knew
         Bb majorBb
He would sail in time
  FF
In time

Verse 3:
FF             DmDm
My sisters all grew up and went away
G minorGm       C2
 To Denver and Cheyenne
FF       DmDm
Marrying their grownup dreams
G minorGm         C majorC
The lilacs and the man

Verse 4:
DmDm         G+G
I stayed behind the youngest still
C majorC           C minorCm
And I danced alone
        F7F7
Hoping that my father's dreams
       Bb majorBb
Would someday take me home
    FF
Take me home

Verse 5:
FF          DmDm
And I live in Paris now
G minorGm           C majorC  FF DmDm
 My children dance and sing
          G minorGm
Word’s of a miner's tongue
            C7C7
A augmentedA language they've never seen

Verse 6:
DmDm           G7G7
 I sail my memories of home
C majorC               C minorCm
 Like boats across the Seine
        F7F7
And watch my father‘s eyes
          Bb majorBb
Watch the setting sun
               FF   FF
Set in my father's eyes — again